Staff Petrophysicist, Gulf of America

Job Summary

Murphy Exploration and Production seeks a Petrophysicist for the Houston office to support offshore exploration and development activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The role requires a candidate with a strong background in petrophysical evaluations and interdisciplinary technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Formation evaluation and development of petrophysical models for a variety of age reservoirs for offshore Gulf of Mexico
• Participate with a multidisciplinary team that undertakes subsurface technical evaluations and reservoir characterization projects
• Maintain and update the field specific petrophysical models, integrating and reconciling existing and future data from all subsurface disciplines
• Manage and collect well data for exploration and development areas
• Plan and execute formation evaluation programs and procedures for coring, wireline logging, data quality control, computer processing, and data management
• Support all aspects of open hole log applications and interpretation of routine and advanced core analysis
• Collaborate with core analysis, coring, mudlogging, wireline, and LWD companies and in-house experts to ensure operational procedures are executed with high standards of safety, quality, and best practices
• Communicate technical information to various stakeholders within the organization
• Champion petrophysical knowledge sharing and mentorship across the subsurface organization
• Undertake petrophysical regional studies to support near field exploration and development teams

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Geoscience or Engineering Discipline
• Minimum 12 years of Petrophysical Engineering experience within the oil industry, service company or producer
• Deep water basin experience such as Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, or Atlantic Margins
• Experience with petrophysical software packages: Geolog, IP, or Techlog experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis
• Database management experience, including cleaning data, splicing logs, and managing daily reporting and data transfer while drilling wells
• Experienced in advanced methods of post core retrieval handling and analysis techniques
• Demonstrated ability to design logging programs in deepwater reservoir systems that are fit for purpose
• Able to assist in building pore pressure predictions for pre-drill modeling
• Analysis of formation pressures and samples from wireline and LWD for fluid contacts, fluid type, and reservoir quality is required